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The Columbus Parker Track Club qualified 21 athletes to compete at the AAU National Junior Olympics to be held at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Mich.
The club received 55 awards at the qualifying meet in Columbia, with Tyrek Salley leading the way with 35 points and Makaiah Wallace of Indian Land adding 31 points.
Salley, in the 13-14 boys, won the 3,000-meter race walk and 100 hurdles. He placed third in the discus and was a member of the second-place 4 x 100 relay.

An ordinance providing tax relief to the Lancaster & Chester Railroad was unanimously approved by Lancaster County Council on Monday, July 8, months after a similar effort failed to gain traction with county officials.
The agreement was one of two related pieces council considered Monday, though compared to previous meetings, neither item generated any conversation among council.
First up, council unanimously approved final reading of an amendment to an ordinance that placed the company into a joint industrial and business park status last December.

A tense moment during a traffic checkpoint which included a passenger pulling a revolver from a glove box, ended with the arrest of two people July 3.
Braydan Shyanne Holloway, 18, of Monroe, and Breante Deon Stevens, 24, 1570 Beacon Road were arrested on a host of drug and firearm charges, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
Holloway was charged with possession of a controlled substance and no driver’s license.

What began as one 911 call about a vandalized mailbox eventually involved a string of at least 30 damaged boxes throughout the county between June 25 and 26.
Both the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office and the Lancaster Police Department are investigating multiple reports of vandals knocking over or destroying mailboxes in the late night or early morning hours of both days.

A Van Wyck native is making an appearance tonight, July 14, on the Food Network.
Jason “JV” Vaughan is the owner of the Taco Spot, a Charleston based restaurant with two locations – downtown Charleston and West Ashley.
Vaughn, a 1996 graduate of Johnson and Wales in Charleston, opened the West Ashley location in 2008.
“Fresh and local, made to order,” said Vaughn’s cousin, Lori Williams, also a Lancaster native who lives in Pawleys Island.

Could compensation for a tank of gas or an hour of training help recruit or retain members of the county’s volunteer fire departments?
That’s the idea behind a potential Federal Emergency Management Agency grant brought to Lancaster County Council’s attention during its July 8 meeting.
Morris Russell, director of the county’s Emergency Management and Fire Service office, spoke to council Monday night and requested they allow the Fire Commission to move forward with applying for a Recruitment and Retention grant.

Imagine coming home to find your basement look more like a swimming pool.
This was the case for Lancaster resident Karen Ormand when she got back to her West Barr Street house just after 6 p.m. Thursday, July 11.
The heavy rainfall that day did a number on her basement, which is on the higher end of a slope. Because the ground outside couldn’t absorb all the precipitation, the water found its way indoors.
The site was unwelcoming.

Joe Manning never had the chance to meet Sadie Pfiefer (Phifer). But he knows there is more to her life than gets told through a 100-plus year-old photograph and Manning is desperately trying to find out about her.
The caption in the Lewis Hine photo simply reads, “Sadie Pfiefer, 48 inches high, has worked half a year. One of the many small children at work in Lancaster Cotton Mills. Nov. 30, 1908. Location: Lancaster, South Carolina.”

Joe Manning never had the chance to meet Sadie Pfiefer (Phifer). But he knows there is more to her life than gets told through a 100-plus year-old photograph and Manning is desperately trying to find out about her.
The caption in the Lewis Hine photo simply reads, “Sadie Pfiefer, 48 inches high, has worked half a year. One of the many small children at work in Lancaster Cotton Mills. Nov. 30, 1908. Location: Lancaster, South Carolina.”

Tracey Alicia Mobley and Brent Jackson Chavous were married at 3:30 p.m. May 25, 2013, at Saint Paul A.M.E. Church by the Rev. Kenny Rose of Untied Bibleway Church of Lancaster and Minister Cory Mobley Sr. of True Vision Church in San Antonio, Texas.